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Hi There

I have the advantage of having my van in my side driveway, but I still close it down, it has a major clean out 1st, then the water is emptied out, also making sure the loo is emptied of all water as well, I bring the cushions indoors, as for the seats and backs, I stand them up in the centre of the van, then I leave the fridge door open, the last thing I do is take the wheels off, and stand the van on axle stands, caravan recommend you do this so your tyres are not left in the same position all winter. Hope this helps a bit.

This is our first winter as well. I put 2 of those DRYBAGS in in October and after 6 weeks they had absorbed alot of moisture. I have re activated them in the oven. I was really impressed with them

Also put in some of the crystals today just for comparison.

I noticed in C and C mag that somebody reccommends using lamiate floor insulkation to keep warm. Has anybody tried this as insulkatuion in their caravan. I was cold last week when we had frost- never camped so late in year wuth tent so all thois is new for me.

Cheers Siobhan

Hi everyone , We are going out in ours this winter , this week in fact and we have found a way to stop our water tank freezing up , or at least we will have when we test it out. we went to BQ and bought a small and a medium cold water tank jackets , these are black and padded, very thick. cost under a tenner for both . we made these into an extra thick jacket for our water bottle , cut a circle out of the small one a bit bigger than the bottle, then useing duck tape , tape another long piece around to fit the bottle . then this should be like a bag stand the bottle in this and then make another cirle for the top cutting out a smaller circle for the pipe to go through . also use some lenths of the lagging to wrap round the water pipe . anyone else any ideas in case this doesnt work? and can the water bottle actually freeze up?.

this is our first winter using our caravan, we left it in storage last year. one tip we have been given when using the caravan in the winter months is to change gas bottle from blue to red as blue freezes up, but red doesn't. Also taken a lot of other tips on board that i have read from this thread . If it doesn't snow too bad we will be going away in 3 weeks!

I went down to check on my van on Sunday. She's looking great. I brought all my upholstery home (slight overkill, but she was brand new in October and I was paranoid about damp), we put cardboard against all the windows and the top rooflights. It was still there (bit bent from the sun), the bowls of salt were all full of water and the kitty litter didn't look any different (don't have a cat - is it supposed to swell up or something?). Only slight bit of green was on the inside of the door - I obviously didn't clean it properly before shutting it up.

I put more salt in it, shut her up, roll on 17th March!!!

I do, however, need a good size bucketful of Bobby Dazzler though - she's suffering from the dreaded black streaks!!

I think I'm gonna get me one of those new Compactalite awnings when thie UKCS shop starts selling them, they look great!